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...only interesting event going on there. Strolling between grandstand, clubhouse and stadium courts, spectators could see numerous middle-aged and even elderly gentlemen playing tennis, and very good tennis, on the outer courts. This was the Veterans' Championship, for players over 45. In the final, onlookers beheld one of the most extraordinary tennists in the U. S., Clarence M. Charest, win the title for the third time, against S. Jarvis Adams, an unseeded oldster from Port Washington...
After contrasting such empire-builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...
...Peter's portico, behind which was a great tapestry of the Last Supper. He turned, held aloft the monstrance, pronounced solemn benediction. At once floodlights swept his white-robed figure. With his procession he re-entered St. Peter's, dark, obscure. Then suddenly the 50,000 watchers beheld the entire dome, the roofs, the porches and balustrades of St, Peter's burst into flames of thousands of flaring torches. The crowd cheered, while the basilica blazed like a vast birthday cake. As they went back home, in trams and through dark streets, there was much talk...
...Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitions. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto...
...variety builds its labyrinthine nests in the soil beneath buildings, crawls up into wooden beams and floors. It eats from the inside so that owners are unaware of damage until shell-like or spongy timbers collapse. First intimation a young New Jersey couple got was when they beheld, through a gaping parlor floor, their grand piano in the cellar...